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Default Trying to convert date to day

Dave,

If someone were to use a Pivot Table to evaluate this data, would it work or
not? I'm thinking NOT.

Thanks,
Barb

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

=text(a1,"dddd")

But I think I'd use a custom format in column A:

mm/dd/yyyy* dddd

And widen the column.


icky wrote:

I am trying to convert a date, column A(ie 01/16/2006), to the day of the
month, column B, that this date format represents.
column column
A B
01/16/2006 Thursday

Is this possible or am I in another demention.
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icky


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Dave Peterson